Choking Sands

S1lent 2009-07-20

★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (2 votes)

Cheap enough to possibly cripple an opponent early. Combined with black's classic hand removal it's a pretty strong spell.

pwdrrider 2010-03-02

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)

This would also work well with a swamp walk deck... the bonus damage really makes this close to sinkhole (the most broken common ever, certainly the most valuable($))

Kryptnyt 2010-08-03

★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)

This would perhaps be useful if I didnt see Urborg, tomb of yawg everywhere.
not that it matters in the deck that would run this. Blow Urborg up, then use this to take out coffers.

I myself am a fan of monogreen LD though.

Baconradar 2010-08-07

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)

I'm surprised this doesn't have a higher rating. It's one of those cards that is strong enough for constructed but also fits fine in casual land destruction decks that have gone heavy black with sinkhole, blight, befoul, random discard etc

bagilis 2010-09-11

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)

Sinkhole + choking sands + rain of tears + befoul + strip mine + ...

tavaritz 2011-06-06

★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (1 vote)

What is casual LD? If you start to play LD in our circles on casual play no-one will play against you.

RxPhantom 2011-08-15

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)

With everyone running non-basics, this is an excellent land kill spell, and a good setup for bloodthirst...in a casual deck, of course.

The_Evictee 2013-04-19

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)

Wizards please return black land destruction at 3 CMC.

TheWrathofShane 2013-09-28

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

T1 ritual into this.
T2 Sinkhole.

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